After settling into a new home, most homeowners look forward to the quiet time they’ll spend leisurely reading the paper in the sunny breakfast nook while the aroma of coffee teases them from the kitchen. What they don’t anticipate is the dishwasher clanging loudly as the breakfast dishes are cleaned or the disruption from the slow creak of the neighbor’s garage door as it opens.
The decision to build a new home is both a financial and emotional investment, likely to be one of the most expensive of your life. As consumers, architects and builders begin to consider the size of the bedrooms, open floor plans and the kitchen layout, they may be overlooking one important factor-noise pollution.
According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, noise is considered any unwanted sound. While jet planes may come to mind, aggravating noise in the home could be as simple as the heavy footfall of someone rushing down a flight of stairs or a television blaring in the family room. A recent survey conducted by Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials systems and composite solutions, found that noise nuisance is a problem for 78...
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